Discovery & International Space Station

Hey we just watched these two fly from west to east across the night sky! Absolutely amazing! Bright as anything…apparently they are so many 100s of miles above the earth that they are still in sunshine so are reflecting the light back!
This is the first time that the ‘man on the telly’ has said ‘look at the sky at such & such a time & you’ll see…comet, meteor shower, eclipse etc’ & we’ve actually had clear enough skies to spot them!
Just great…amazing to think they are manned….anyone else see them?

Normally it sits just under the moon like a bright star but the one picture I took recently and uploaded here was nt under the moon and very large indeed to big for any star.My picture was taken with a phone camera

Ha ha Bob :)) I've just got a new "state of the art" iron (I know, I know, I'm sooooo lucky.....) and one of it's many functions is a "vertical ironing feature" (I kid you not...!) Anyway, it means you just hang the shirt or whatever on a hanger, and blast it with the iron (hours of fun...). But I had to laugh, when reading through the destructions (I'm a woman, so I read them, lol) and it said...."CAUTION! DO NOT IRON WHILST WEARING THE GARMENT...." Oooo I was so tempted.....lol :))

Don't look up at night ! how can I test it if you're all out ogling ? As to you lot getting off planet (hahahahaaa!) they really fooled you didnt they (and 2001 a space odysey was real too eh!) what youre looking at are my drone satellites, which give me the needed co-ordinates to launch my test runs with!
Watch this space, not that one!

Actually Indy....one of them was a bit wobbly...like the pilot has had one too many!! Thought they might have something to do with you! One of them had even left it's indicator on from when it turned right past the moon!!

As I'm the only one UP there it doesnt matter too much if the indicators left on. The "wobble " you percieve is actually a distortion of the light spectrum caused by huge acceleration forces when the laughter drive kicks in, don't worry too much about it , it's relatively harmless to offworlders....ok you can worry a bit if that doesn't include you, but hey youre only gonna laugh till your sides hurt anyway so what the hey!

You're NOT the only one uo there Indy...unless you've bumped off the Man in the Monn? Don't think even you would be that cruel...HE would never allow inappropriate indicating so maybe you have...and...you ain't seen me - right?

I haven't seen the ISS with the shuttle docked to it yet (not many opportunities left!) but I have seen the the ISS pass over head on several occasions. May here in the UK is one of the bast months of the year to see it.

I get info on when to see it from this site:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

You just put in your town & country & it will find the times of when the ISS, or other things like satellites are visible from your place up to 10 days in advance.

One of the best moments this year came on my birthday in May!!! I was able to see it & I describe it on a forum I post on frequently. If you would like to read about it, here is the page address:

http://beyondspace.info/forum/index.php?topic=1695.0

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Another post can be found here:

http://beyondspace.info/forum/index.php?topic=607.30

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The maps on both pages are wrong, they are not the ones I originally put up! Those were of where I live in the UK - not the Black Sea!!!